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Managing inflation, interest rates and exchange rates: the balancing act (Sunday Observer)
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce requested me to speak about ?Managing inflation, interest rates and exchange rates: the Balancing Act?, at their Annual Sessions this year. It is significant that the CCC realizes that this is a balancing act, and that these variables have to be balanced.

Managing inflation, interest rates and exchange rates: the balancing act (Sunday Observer)
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) requested me to speak about ?Managing inflation, interest rates and exchange rates: the Balancing Act?, at their Annual Sessions this year.

Student loan changes lower rates, raise amounts (Louisville Courier-Journal)
Changes in the federal student aid program that took effect last Tuesday will lower interest rates for some students while increasing the amounts they can borrow. Among the biggest changes, the interest rate on new, subsidized Stafford loans to undergraduates drops from 6.8 percent to 6 percent.

European Commission rebukes Sarkozy on interest rates and trade (International Herald Tribune)
The European Commission delivered a sharp response Friday to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France over his recent comments on interest rates and trade policy, underlining European economic policy divisions before the coming Group of 8 summit meeting.

EPF board defers decision on interest rates for 2008-09 (New Kerala)
New Delhi, July 5 : The Central Board of Trustees of the Employees Provident Fund Organisation today has deferred its decision on the interest rates of 2008-09 till its next meeting.

This card has high rates, big surprises (The Charlotte Observer)
Subprime credit cards might be the worst consumer credit product ever marketed. Their high interest rates, costly penalties and high, hidden fees can eat up nearly all the credit available from the cards and, over time, turn a $100 purchase into more than a thousand dollars of debt. Wendy Adams of Las Vegas is living that nightmare. A former Navy hospital corpsman with disabilities, Adams ...

Sarkozy wonders whether European rates 'reasonable' at 4.25 percent (AFP via Yahoo! News)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday questioned the European Central Bank's decision to hike interest rates by a quarter point to 4.25 percent, asking at a ruling party meeting whether it was "reasonable."

Central bank determined to curb deposit interest rates (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge ? The State Bank of Vietnam has asked its local branches to check the deposit interest rates now offered by credit institutions in the localities. The bank has also made a lot of decisions in an effort to force deposit interest rates down.

New student loan rates take effect (The Morning Call)
Interest is falling on federal financial aid programs. Changes in the federal student aid program that took effect Tuesday will lessen interest rates for some students while increasing the amount they can borrow.

Online auctioning gives consumers the opportunity to beat interest rates offered by local branches (The Gleaner)
BOSTON -- MoneyAisle is a free new Web service that makes a bold claim: It says it will maximize the interest rates consumers can get on savings accounts, by running online auctions in which banks bid for consumers' business.